We're having 2 weddings because many of our LGBTQ+ guests don't feel safe going to Florida

• We want to have a wedding in our home state, Florida, without ostracizing our queer friends.
• Our LGBTQ+ friends said they don't feel safe traveling to Florida, and we won't make them do so.
• So, we're having one wedding in Florida and one in New York. 

In 2022, I was directing at a theater in Ithaca, New York, when my partner surprised me with a marriage proposal.

At the end of a breezy hike to the foot of Businessman's Lunch Falls, sitting on a sun-warmed rock in the middle of the creek, they popped the question. I said yes.